I’ve been enjoying the app and the community quite a bunch! However I do notice that the feed is starting to fill up with lots of negative sentiment.
The technology feed is 40% bad news, the news communities are filled with doom scroll stories and the localized communities are also complaining a lot. Some politics get added to the mix.
Lately I’ve noticed that I feel more negative about the world after a Lemmy visit.
Anyone else noticing that?
Gonna be captain obvious here by saying “maybe because the world is spiraling into shit?”
And everything is, absolutely by definition, political. Everything. People who think they can escape politics are delusional and privileged. If you’re reading about some horrible new law banning encryption then yes that’s fucking political. Instead of head in sanding… I dunno. Do something?
I respectfully disagree. Politics are a meta discourse. Except from urgent topics, most of that discourse is tied to interests instead of actual problems.
Simply put: Anything can be political, but the value of those politics is not within that topic - it runs next to it. And you can very much choose to engage (“make” something political) or choose to not value it. Most political discourse leads to nothing. It’s about rallying people and rarely about the topic at hand.